Kwon Simona, Rideout Catlin, Tseng Winston, Islam Nadia, Cook Won Kim, Ro Marguerite, Trinh-Shevrin Chau
New York University School of Medicine, USA
Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2012 Spring;6(1):43-52. doi: 10.1353/cpr.2012.0010.
Health promotion practice research conducted by or in partnership with community-based organizations (CBOs) serving Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AA and NHPI) can address health disparities. Few CBOs have the tools to integrate or initiate research into their programmatic agenda. The New York University (NYU) Center for the Study of Asian American Health (CSAAH) and the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) created a partnership with the goal to support CBO research infrastructure development by creating the Community Empowered Research Training (CERT) program.
A survey was conducted and discussions held with CBO leaders representing AA and NHPI communities to inform the development of the CERT program.
The majority of participants are engaged in service-related research and reported interest in building their research capacity. CBOs may require help reframing how data can be collected and used to better inform programmatic activities and to address health disparities facing AA and NHPI communities.
CBOs possess both an interest in and access to local knowledge that can inform health priorities. Findings have been applied to the CERT program to build capacity to support community-initiated/driven research to address health disparities affecting AAs and NHPIs.
由服务亚裔美国人、夏威夷原住民和太平洋岛民（AA和NHPI）的社区组织（CBO）开展或与之合作进行的健康促进实践研究，能够解决健康差异问题。很少有社区组织有能力将研究纳入或启动纳入其项目议程。纽约大学（NYU）亚裔美国人健康研究中心（CSAAH）和亚太岛民美国人健康论坛（APIAHF）建立了合作伙伴关系，目标是通过创建社区赋权研究培训（CERT）项目来支持社区组织研究基础设施的发展。
开展了一项调查，并与代表AA和NHPI社区的社区组织领导人进行了讨论，以为CERT项目的开发提供信息。
大多数参与者从事与服务相关的研究，并表示有兴趣增强其研究能力。社区组织可能需要帮助重新构建如何收集和使用数据，以便更好地为项目活动提供信息，并解决AA和NHPI社区面临的健康差异问题。
社区组织对可用于确定健康优先事项的本地知识既有兴趣又有获取途径。研究结果已应用于CERT项目，以增强支持社区发起/推动的研究的能力，以解决影响AA和NHPI的健康差异问题。
